do you prefer white eggs or brown eggs?

[Dancing Fire]

 

[FrekeChild]

Doesn''t make a difference to me.

 

[pinkstars]

Well because I just got to experience them, I would have to say I prefer super fresh farm eggs...which would be brown. They''re so delicious!

 

[4ever]

Fresh farm eggs can be white or brown, depending on the type of chickens. Brown chickens have brown eggs and white chickens lay white eggs.

I like the brown speckly sort myself because I think they''re pretty (always free range).

 

[strmrdr]

green with ham

 

[Lorelei]

Date: 9/18/2009 5:27:16 AM
Author: 4ever
Fresh farm eggs can be white or brown, depending on the type of chickens. Brown chickens have brown eggs and white chickens lay white eggs.

I like the brown speckly sort myself because I think they''re pretty (always free range).

Yes, if you can get a freshly laid free range egg there is such a big difference, or buying free range eggs where the chickens have access to a more natural life is worth it.

 

[Elmorton]

Doesn''t matter to me as long as it''s cage free! I get them at the farmer''s market, where they cost about 1/2 as much as in the store.

 

[Camille]

Any color violet, green, brown, white as long as they are free range/fresh [farmer''s market] with gorgeus deep yolks.

 

[Cehrabehra]

doesn''t matter to me but I did find it funny that while brown eggs here are sometimes double what white ones are - the reverse was true in Ireland with white eggs being rare and expensive. Eggs in Ireland also tasted more like... chicken! Go figure!

For easter eggs I prefer brown ones though - the tones they get from the dye are just gorgeous!

 

[dragonfly411]

oh DF I love your morning questions.

Brown for me. They tend to be fluffier and have a bit more flavor. I also view them as much healthier, as I usually get free roam brown eggs.

 

[purrfectpear]

Brown, but it''s strictly psychological. I just "feel" like they''re more natural

(I know they aren''t).

 

[tigian]

Doesn''t matter, can''t tell a difference. I get mine at the Farmer''s Market and they taste way better than commercialized eggs.

 

[princesss]

Date: 9/18/2009 10:14:58 AM
Author: purrfectpear
Brown, but it''s strictly psychological. I just ''feel'' like they''re more natural

(I know they aren''t).

+1. Logically I know there is no difference, but it''s like the whole grain vs. refined sugar/flour/whatever debate has made me more inclined to think that brown is natural and healthy and white is baaaaaaaaaaaaad.

 

[Luckyeshe]

I like them organic, cage-free, eggs. In whatever color they come in.

 

[Linda W]

I never had a brown egg.

 

[cellososweet]

either as long as they are fresh. the best egg i''ve ever had was on a farm in spain where they got the eggs from the hens and made them for us with tomatoes. so good!

 

[Kaleigh]

I just can't go for the brown eggs, silly I know.

 

[Haven]

As long as they''re cage free and farm fresh, we love ''em!

 

[grapegravity]

colour doesn''t matter as long as they are omega-3...

 

[Steel]

My ladies lay brown eggs. So that would be a vote for brown eggies from me.

Now, that said the last two days somebody has laid a cadbury mini egg type white-ish egg with speckles! Perhaps I might get to eat a white eggie yet!!!!!

 

[LadyBlue]

Organic brown eggs

 

[Sabine]

White, but I have no idea why!

 

[gwendolyn]

Eggs are eggs.

 

[Dancing Fire]

Date: 9/18/2009 10:12:59 AM
Author: dragonfly411
oh DF I love your morning questions.

Brown for me. They tend to be fluffier and have a bit more flavor. I also view them as much healthier, as I usually get free roam brown eggs.

yup!!

 

[Dancing Fire]

Date: 9/18/2009 12:27:28 PM
Author: Haven
As long as they''re cage free and farm fresh, we love ''em!

what do you mean by cage free?

i didn''t know eggs can fly.

 

[brightlight]

Date: 9/18/2009 2:48:38 PM
Author: Dancing Fire

Date: 9/18/2009 12:27:28 PM
Author: Haven
As long as they''re cage free and farm fresh, we love ''em!

what do you mean by cage free?

i didn''t know eggs can fly.

They can run around and play when they''re not laying eggs. A lot of times, they''re in a tiny cage 24/7.

 

[kenny]

Opps.
Double post.

 

[kenny]

Date: 9/18/2009 2:09:07 PM
Author: gwendolyn
Eggs are eggs.

Not if they hatch in the middle of your sentence.

Then it would be . . . Eggs are chicks.

 

[hoofbeats95]

Brown. They tend to have a richer yolk.

Are you 100% sure that brown eggs only come from brown chickens? Cause we had mostly white chickens when I was growing up and often times had a few brown eggs scattered in. I will have to ask my father this question. Or my g-ma as she still has chickens. I love fresh eggs. I grew up on eggs direct from the chicken!

 

[4ever]

Date: 9/18/2009 2:48:38 PM
Author: Dancing Fire

Date: 9/18/2009 12:27:28 PM
Author: Haven
As long as they''re cage free and farm fresh, we love ''em!

what do you mean by cage free?

i didn''t know eggs can fly.

A caged hen lives in a tiny cadge for it''s whole life. It''s feet get sores from only standing on the wire cadge floor. The amount of room it has is equivilant to a human sitting in a car seat for their entire life. They never go outside or partake in any natural chicken behavious like nesting and dust baths (no dust baths are like a person who never gets to have a shower). They are treated like little egg laying machines, not like animals. Cadged eggs are cheap because the farmer can cram a whole lot of chickens into very little space.

A true free range hen has a whole feild to rome and plenty of sapce. They eat grass and insects as well as their chicken feed. They have a barn to lay eggs in and nest in and sleep in at night. They can have dust baths which stop the chicken getting parasites and skin infections. In other words, they are treated humainly. Free rasnge eggs generally have more nutrients because the chickens have a more varried diet. Free range eggs cost more- some times double- because they need more space which means the famer can keep less chickens in the same area that a cadged egg farmer can.

And also, the nice dark rich colour of the yolk that people love is more than likely artificially created by adding colourings to the chickens feed. Natural egg yolks are much paler.